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Question 702177: An artist wants to place a piece of round glass in a square. If the perimeter of the square is 40 inches. What is the area of the largest circular piece?
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Question 702281: the perimeter of an isosceles triangle is 72cm and the base is 4 cm shorter than the sum of the shorter sides what was the length of the base?

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Question 702291:

if 4 pieces of a string measures a half of a yard . what does each string measures

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Question 702398: A square's side is increased by 3 yards, which corresponds to an increase in the area by 69 square yards. How many yards is the side of the initial square?
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Question 702400: A baseball diamond is a square. The distance from base to base is 90 feet. What is the distance from home plate to second base?
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Question 702738: The combined area of two squares is 104 square meters. The sides of the larger square are five times as long as the sides of the smaller square. Find the dimensions of each of the squares.
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Question 703252:
A garden that is squared shaped has a perimeter of 164 inches. What is measure of a side?

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Question 703252:
A garden that is squared shaped has a perimeter of 164 inches. What is measure of a side?

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Question 703953: storms factory makes toy cubes. each edge measures 2cm.
calculate the volume of a circle
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Question 703982: three interior angles of a convex heptagon measure 125 degrees and two of the interior angles measure 143 degrees what are the other two interior angle measure in the heptagon?
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Question 704493: i need a word problem that is created that gives hints about what the angle measurement is. it is for a triangle so the sum of all of them is 180 degrees. A EXAMPLE THAT WAS ON MY HOMEWORK WAS:
angle 2 is three more than the first and angle three is one more than twice the
first. What are the measurements of the three angles.... i need something like this to get the word problem please email me if you know a good on im confused
Thanks

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Question 704711: A soup can is in the shape of a cylinder. The can has a volume of 342 cm^3 and a diameter of 6cm.
(A)Express the height of the can in terms of pi. [Show all work]

(B)Determine the maximum number of soup cans that can be stacked on their base between two shelves if the distance between the shelves is exactly 36 cm. [Explain your answer]
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Question 704715: If the relation y=mx^2+12x+9 has only one x-intercept, what is the value of m?

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Question 705226: the diagonal of a square is 250cm how long is each side ?
Plz help!!!

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Question 705349: 1) 3x=7y+2;(2,3)
2) 11=3y+2x

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Question 705616: Two of the vertices of an equilateral triangle are (2,1) and (6,5). Find the possible coordinates of the remaining vertex.
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Question 705724: What is the slope of a line perpendicular to the line whose equation is 2y=-6+8?
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Question 705770:
Lins garden has an area of 78 square yards. The length of the garden is 5 less than three times its width. What are the dimensions of Lins garden.
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Question 705904: the width of a door is about 1 meter. how can you estimate the length of a wall that contains the door? how do i do this problem?
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Question 706014: the length and width of a rectangle are in the ratio 5:3. the perimeter of the rectangle is 32 cm. what are the length and width?
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Question 706285: use expressions for odd integers to confirm the conjecture that the product of two odd integers is an odd integer.
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Question 706387: The width w of a rectangular swimming pool is 7x^2. The area A of the pool is 7x^3 � 42x^2. What is an expression for the length of the pool?
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Question 706532: A sprinkler at golf course is set to spray in a semicircle.the sprinkler can spray water a distance of 25 feet.what area of the golf course is watered by the sprinkler

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Question 706416: Three circles are tangent externally to each other. The lines of centers are 12, 18 and 16 cm respectively. Find the length of the radius of each circle.
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Question 706441: A rectangular picture is 3 cm longer than it is wide. The picture is surrounded by a frame that is 2 cm wide. The area of the picture and the frame together is 1000cm^ greater than the area of the picture. I need to find the width of the picture.
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Question 706558: Find x when
a = 115� and b = 168�
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Question 706694:
a garden plot is to contain 240 square feet if its length is to be three times its width, what should its dimension be?
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Question 706695: if the length and width of a rectangle are doubled, by what factor is the length of its diagonal multiplied?
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Question 706744: A Satellite in Geostationary orbit stays over the same spot on earth. The satellite completes one orbit in the same time that earth rotates one about its axis (23.93 hours). If the satellite's orbit has radius 4.23*10^7 m, calculate the satellite's orbital speed (tangential velocity) in M/sec.
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Question 706879: A rectangular garden has an area of 40 yds^2. The length is two yards less than twice its width. Find the length and width of the garden. (Set up equations and solve)
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Question 707005: My question is: A rectangular soccer field is twice as long as it is wide. If the perimeter of the soccer field is 300 yards , what are its dimensions?
I know the basic formula is 2W+2L=300 but i am not sure where to go from there...
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Question 707196: Each side of a square is lengthened by 3 inches. The area of this new, larger square is 64 square inches. Find the length of a side of the original square. Explain how you got your answer.
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Question 707205: A circular room at an office has a diameter of 96 feet. What is the area of the floor in the room? Use 3.14 to approximate pi. Round your answer to the nearest hundredth.
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Question 707227: A square garden has a length of 19 1/2 feet. Estmate area of the garden

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Question 707239:
if a football field is 40 yds wide and 120 yds long. what is the distance between opposite corners of the football field?
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Question 707299: The area of a square is 529 square centimeters. How long is each side of the square?
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Question 707416: Scientist in Alaska recently found a hadrosaur footprint that measured 14 inches across. It is believed that the footprint was created by a young dinosaur that was approximately 27 feet long. Adult hadrosaurs have been known to be 40 feet long. How wide would you expect a footprint of an adult hadrosaur to be? show your reasoning.
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Question 706747: You can make an electromagnet by wrapping a wire around a nail and then sending a current through the wire.The strength of the magnet is directly proportional to the number of wrappings. The nail, (pictured in Homework Paper, has a diameter of 0.4 Cm). The wire is 0.05 cm in diameter, and you can get a 100 wrappings side-by-side on the nail before having to start another layer. Consider each wrapping a perfect circle. How many meters of wire do you need to the nearest 0.1 m, to make a magnet with 700 wrappings?
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Question 707502: Suppose a chord in a circle is 48 centimeters long and it is 7 centimeters from the center of the circle. Find the length of a radius of the circle.
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Question 707734: Can a 17 cubic inches be a square?
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Question 708475: The height of a triangle is 8m less than the base. The area is 10cm^2. Find the height and the base.
I have tried the equation 10=b(b-8)1/2. I then subtracted 10 from both sides and turned the left side into b^2 -8b-5. Then I could not figure out how to factor correctly. Am I doing the equation wrong or did I mess up on the problem entirely?
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Question 708697: A gardener wants to divide a square piece of lawn in half diagonally. What is the length of the diagonal if the side of the square is 8 ft? Leave your answer in simplest radical form.
(1 point)
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Question 708776: two squares have the perimeters of 20 inches and 48 inches. How much longer is a side of the larger square than a side of the smaller squre. plases hlep
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Question 708919: a square poster board has sides that are 40 inches long.the base of the triangle is 24 inches.What is the area of the trapezoid poster board?
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